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2020-10-07 16:00 Abstract

Title: Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
 
Speaker:  Dr. Hsin-An Pan (Max Planck Institute)
 
Date: December 07 at 16:00
 
Location: R521, General Building II
 
Abstract: 

Why galaxies look the way they do today heavily relies on the processes regulating star formation in the galaxies. Nearby galaxies offer the opportunity to uncover how the formation, distribution, and destruction of local molecular clouds -- the birthplace of stars -- and their star formation capability depend on the galactic-scale processes. The recent advent of powerful telescopes and instruments (e.g., ALMA, integral field spectroscopy) used to observe molecular clouds and star-forming regions has transformed the subject from global galactic analysis to the scales comparable to an individual cloud and star-forming region, and from detailed single-case study to galaxy survey. In this talk, I will introduce the current status and challenges of nearby extragalactic star formation. Significant progress of how the physics of molecular clouds and star formation leads to the diverse appearance of star formation in galaxies is expected in the next decade. Moreover, I will also introduce the ongoing multi-wavelength galaxy surveys which I have conducted or have been involved in. I would like to collaborate with researchers from any field, from the Milky Way to the high-redshift Universe, and develop a global picture of star formation from the local to the distant Universe together.

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